Cuisine search device, cuisine search method, program, and computer-readable storage medium

• US 10,055,496 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2012
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Osaki, Shoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hasan, Syed Haroon
• Application Number:
  US14/404,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20150120705A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,064 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

Abstract

Recipes including almost the same ingredients can be easily found. A cooking information search device obtains, in response to a user'"'"'s instruction, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from cooking information storing means for storing the pieces of cooking information, each piece of cooking information which includes information on a plurality of ingredients and cooking procedures. The cooking information search device selects a part of the plurality of ingredients included in the obtained cooking information, and obtains related cooking information retrieved from the cooking information storing means under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of the selected ingredients. The cooking information search device outputs data included in the obtained cooking information and the retrieved related cooking information so that the data is presented to the user.

Claims

1. A cooking information search device comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to;

obtain one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from cooking information storage wherein each piece of cooking information includes information on a plurality of ingredients, cooking procedures and a first generic dish name, said obtaining being in response to a user'"'"'s instruction;

select one or more query ingredients from the plurality of ingredients included in the obtained cooking information;

obtain one or more pieces of related cooking information that is retrieved from the cooking information storage, where the retrieved related cooking information includes a second generic dish name that is different from the first generic dish name and further includes the one or more query ingredients;

wherein the second generic dish name uses at least one different ingredient or a different cooking procedure than the first generic dish name; and

output data included in the obtained cooking information and the retrieved related cooking information so that the data is presented to the user.

2. The cooking information search device according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of pieces of cooking information respectively include, information titles, which are names representing dishes, and dish names indicating dish groups to which the dishes belong and generic names of dishes.

3. The cooking information search device according to claim 1,

wherein, in the related cooking information obtaining, the retrieved related cooking information is obtained under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of the selected ingredients based on the appearance frequency of the first generic dish name included in the plurality of pieces of obtained cooking information in response to a user'"'"'s previous instruction.

4. The cooking information search device according to claim 1,

wherein, in the cooking information obtaining, each piece of cooking information which includes information on a plurality of ingredients and cooking procedures is obtained based on a search condition entered by the user, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from the cooking information storage storing the plurality of pieces of cooking information, and

wherein, the related cooking information obtaining, the related cooking information retrieved from the cooking information storage is obtained under a condition that the related cooking information includes the part of selected ingredients and satisfies the search condition.

5. A cooking information search method comprising:

obtaining, with at least one processor operating with a memory device, one of a plurality of pieces of cooking information from cooking information storage, wherein each piece of cooking information includes information on a plurality of ingredients, cooking procedures and a first generic dish name, said obtaining being in response to a user'"'"'s instruction;

selecting, with the at least one processor operating with the memory device, one or more query ingredients from the plurality of ingredients included in the obtained cooking information;

obtaining, with the at least one processor operating with the memory device, one or more pieces of related cooking information that is retrieved from the cooking information storage, where the retrieved related cooking information includes a second generic dish name that is different from the first generic dish name and further includes the one or more query ingredients;

wherein the second generic dish name uses at least one different ingredient or a different cooking procedure than the first generic dish name; and

outputting, with the at least one processor operating with the memory device, data included in the obtained cooking information and the retrieved related cooking information so that the data is presented to the user.

6. The cooking information search device according to claim 5,

wherein, in the step of obtaining the related cooking information, the retrieved related cooking information is obtained under a condition that the retrieved related cooking information includes the part of selected ingredients based on the appearance frequency of the first generic dish name included in the plurality of pieces of cooking information obtained by the cooking information obtaining means in response to a user'"'"'s previous instruction.